Rondel du Jour

She takes her coffee hot and dark and sweet;
her lovers, spicy (pink lips rimmed in salt).
She licks the sauce from veins of bright cobalt
around the finest porcelain.

Her meat - the oyster, which she tends to overheat,
but who would call such gluttony a fault?
She takes her coffee hot and dark.
And sweet skinned lovers, spicy, pink lips rimmed in salt,

spread like warm honey across her cool smooth sheet,
consume delicious hours and exalt
the tongue and palate with love´s heady malt;
then, for another early morning treat,
she takes her coffee - hot and dark and sweet.

Melissa Cannon